Purse



(No Model.) l

G. P. PITZ GERALD.

PURSE.

No. 308,829. Patented Aug. 19,1884.

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L CHARLES F. FI'TZ GERALD, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y. ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO ITJTJTtXBI O. ALLISON, OF ENGLEWOOD, NEW JERSEY.

P u R s .JPECSIFECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,829, dated August 19, 1884.-

Applicalion tiled October-26, 1983; (No model.)

i To all? 1117210112 it may concern: described a row of stitching is run around the Be it known that l, Oimnnns F. Frrz Gnu entire edges of the tab-like portions a aol' the All), new residing in New York, in the county piece A, and thus the several pieces are soot'Ncw York and State of New York, have incured together. The stitches that secure the 5 5 vented a new and useful Improvement in tab-likc portion (ref the piece A, the piece PorteMonnaics or Purses, ot' which the fol- B, and the pieces 0 together do not pass lowing is a specification. through the strap-like portions Z) of the piece Iilyinvention relatesto a purse in which the A, but between these strap-like port-ions. in

w opening is difficult to find, and from which orderthatthe length ol'these stitchcsshallnot [0 money will not easily escape. attract attention, it is desirable that all the I will describe in detail a puzzlc purse emstitches whereby the parts of the purse are bodying my improvement, and then point out secured together shall be of the same-length. the novel features in claim. The stitches that secure the pieces G,thepiecc In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is B, and the tab-like portion of the piece A to I 5 a face View of a puzzle-purse embodying my gether will preferably pass through the strapimprovement, showing the opening closed. likeportions b of the piece A. This difference Fig. 2 is a similar View of the purse, showing is made because it is not intended that the it open. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse sccpocket or pouch formed by the tab-like por tion of the purse, taken on the plane of the tion a of the piece A and the piece B shall 2o dotted line a; m, Fig. 1; and Fig. elis aview of be capable of being opened, whereas it is inits component parts detached from each other. tended that the pocket or pouch formed by the Similar letters of reference designate corretab-like portion a of the piece A and the piece sponding parts in all the figures. B shall be capable of being opened. By making The several parts of this purse will prcl'erone pocket or pouch incapable ofbcing opened 2 5 ably be made of chamois, 1eather, buckskin, thepossibility of opening the othcris lessened, undressed laid, or other soft and strong matebecause a failure of success in opening the one rial; but they may be made or any other suit will tend to discourage efforts of the same able material. kind toward opening the other. The puzzle 7 A {see particularlyFig. 4) designates apiece in this purse is to iind the opening, which, 3 3,0 of material composed ol'two tablike end porowing to the arrangement of the piece 0 and tious, a c, and intermediate strap-likc porits concealment thereby, is puzzling and dilliti cos, I), formed by making a number of parcult. The pieces 0 C are merely used to form allel slits between the end portions. flaps for the pockets or pouches.

B 1-3 designate pieces of material of a shape To open the pocket or pouch a B, it is only 5 3 5 corresponding to the shape of the end portions, necessary to take hold of the pieces a B at the a a, ofthc piece A. middle and pull them apart. The strap-lil e O G designate narrow pieces of material of portions b will then be drawn between the a length equal to the width of the adjacent stitches wherebyithe piece A. and the picceB ends of the tab-like portions (4 a of the piece are secured together. Money may then bein- 9 40 A, and the width of the corresponding ends of sorted through the slits that separate the strapthe pieces 13 1 The pieces B B are laid upon like portions. To close this pocket or pouch the tab-like portions a. a of the piece A. One it is grasped at the end which is the farthest '9 of the pieces G is then laid on the outer side from the strap portions I), and the other pocket ot' the tab-like portion a of the piece A, and or pouch is also grasped and pulled. The 5 another of these pieces 0 is laid on the outer strap-like portions are thus pulled outwardly side of the piece B. One of the pieces 0 is between the stitches that extend around them also laid upon the outer side of the tab-like por so far that they will not be visible when either tion a of the piece A, and the other of these of the flaps (J is raised. By taking hold of pieces 0 is laid upon the outer side of the the pieces a B at the middle, they can be T00 50 piece B. pulled apart, like the pieces a 13, but not so as While the several pieces are in the positions to open the pocket or pouch formed by them.

A failure to open the pocket or pouch formed by the pieces a B by thus pulling them apart will tend to deter a person from making any attempt to open the other pocket or pouch by pulling apart the pieces a B.

I am aware that prior to my improvement a purse had been devised. comprising two pieces of material made approximately round, one having a number of strap-like portions extending from it, and the other being united to it between these strap-like portions; but owing to the circular shape of the pieces of material referred to it was practically impossible to open this purse by pulling apart the said pieces of material at the middle, and consequently an upwardly-extending flap had to be provided on one of the pieces and a downwardly-extending flap or tab 011 the other for pulling onfor the purpose of opening the purse. The presence of these flaps indicates how this purse is to be opened. The object of my improvement is to produce a purse which will not by its construction indicate how it is to be openedin other words, a puzzlepurse. \Vith this object. in view I form a pocket or pouch of two pieces of material which have approximately parallel sides, and although,

from one of these pieces there extend a number of strap -like portions, yetoutside this piece I arrange a ilap which extends downwardly over the said piece, instead of upwardly over the strap-like portions, as in the prior purse. The pocket which I thus form can be opened by pulling the pieces of which it is formed apart. At the upper end of the strap-like portions I arrange another pocket or pouch, but construct it so that it cannot be opened, and hence make it a dummy pocket. A person trying to get access to my purse will be just as likely to commence with efforts to open the dummy pocket, and if such is the case his difficulty will be increased. he try to open the real pocket, he will find nothing about its structure to indicate how it can be opened. My purse is, for the reasons given, a radically different purse from the prior purse to which I have alluded.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a puzzlepurse consisting of a piece, A, composed of portions a a, having approximately parallel sides andv intermediate strap-like portions, 2), pieces B B, corresponding in shape to the portions a a of the piece A, and pieces 0 O, the pieces B B being secured around their sides and outer ends to the portions to a of the piece A, the pieces B 0 being secured together between the strap-like portions 1) of the piece A, the pieces B 0 being secured together and to the portion a of the piece A adjacent to the strap-like portions 1) of the piece A, all being so combined that the piece 0 will extend outwardly over the portion a of the piece A and the piece B, thereby concealing the mouth of the purse, and the piece 0 extending outwardly over the piece a of the piece A and the piece B, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES F. FITZ GERALD.

XVitnesses: T. J. KEANE, J AMES It. BOWEN.

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